About Us

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

Job Summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is building the industry's most trusted, scalable, and fan-centric sportsbook experience. Our Internal Platforms power critical systems that support customer operations, marketing, support, risk, and data—through a combination of Java backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, and integrations with the SaaS and CRM platforms our business teams run on.

We are seeking a Staff Java Software Engineer to set technical direction for the services and integrations that Internal Platforms runs on. This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who operates with minimal guidance, takes on our most complex and often cross-functional problems, and raises the bar for everyone around them.

At this level, your impact is measured beyond the code you write. You will own architecture for significant parts of the platform, drive decisions that span multiple teams and systems, mentor other engineers, and partner directly with Product, Operations, Support, Marketing, Risk, and Data leadership to shape what gets built and why. You will still be hands-on—Staff engineers at FBG write and review code every week—but you will spend meaningful time on design, technical strategy, and multiplying the output of the teams you work with.

You do not need to be a Salesforce specialist. Some of our systems integrate with Salesforce for CRM and workflow automation, so exposure to it is a nice to have—but we're hiring for strength in Java, distributed systems, and integration design, and we expect you to pick up the platform specifics on the job.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture (Primary Focus)

Own the architecture for major services, integrations, and data flows within Internal Platforms, from problem definition through production operation.
Lead design for complex, often cross-functional initiatives—defining the approach, surfacing trade-offs, and driving alignment across engineering teams and stakeholders.
Break ambiguous, department-level problems into clear technical plans and workstreams that other engineers can execute against.
Evaluate and select technologies, patterns, and vendors; know when a sophisticated design approach is warranted and when the simpler answer is the right one.
Establish and evolve engineering standards for the team—API design, testing strategy, observability, deployment, and integration patterns—and get them adopted in practice, not just documented.
Identify systemic technical debt and reliability risk across the platform, build the case for addressing it, and sequence the work alongside feature delivery.

Hands-On Engineering

Design, build, and maintain Java-based backend services (Spring Boot or similar frameworks) that are scalable, resilient, and well-tested.
Take on the hardest technical problems on the team: high-throughput event processing, complex multi-system integrations, thorny data integrity issues, and production incidents that cross service boundaries.